Senior Cyber Engineer

Overview

In this Senior Cyber Engineer role, you will lead and optimize our security technology estate to protect a large, complex tech environment. You’ll work with security leaders, architects and operations to ensure tools are effectively configured and delivering meaningful protection. You will act as a senior technical expert on security projects and help embed them into daily operations, while guiding a small team and collaborating with suppliers. This is an opportunity to influence security engineering at scale and drive measurable improvements in threat detection and response.

Pay / Benefits

• car allowance
• healthcare
• Up to 18% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• CDC pension with Royal Mail contributions
• family-friendly support

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop key security technologies for reliable access by Security Operations
• Collaborate with security architects and ops teams to improve tool configuration and performance
• Lead activities to strengthen protection and logging across technologies
• Serve as senior technical SME for security projects and transition to BAU
• Produce KPI/KRI reporting and present recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Build relationships across technology teams and guide placement and support of tools
• Lead and direct third-party suppliers to meet timescales and SLAs
• Coach and develop engineers and support delivery of a small team

Key requirements

• Five+ years in a similar security engineering role in a large, complex environment
• Proven experience deploying and configuring a broad range of security technologies
• Deep technical knowledge across SIEM, DLP, firewalls, cloud security, IDS/IPS, threat intelligence and vulnerability scanning
• Strong leadership, influence and supplier management with risk-based judgement
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to stay calm under pressure, set direction and make timely decisions
• Experience coaching and developing engineers

• leadership
• communication
• coaching
• SIEM
• DLP
• firewalls

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